How we write, check, and update content

What we publish

findmyvisa publishes general information about visa applications: how UK residents apply for a Schengen visa (the centres, the fees, the documents, the processing times, the appointment picture our own desk sees), UK visa route overviews, document checklists, fee tables and practical guides on how to use the official UKVI / UKVCAS / VFS Global portals. We also build free browser-based tools that help with the document side of an application, and we sell a done-for-you Schengen visa service, described on how we work.

We do not publish individual immigration advice. Whether a specific visa is right for your situation, whether to appeal a refusal, or how to handle a complex case, those questions belong with an IAA-registered immigration adviser, who is regulated to give that advice. We are not regulated by the IAA.

Sourcing standards

Every factual claim on the site falls into one of these categories:

• Primary sources, gov.uk pages, the Home Office's published Immigration Rules, the Immigration Advice Authority's register, the European Commission's visa pages, the consulates' and visa-centre operators' own pages, and the EU's published consulate statistics. These are cited inline (not just in references) and treated as authoritative when they conflict with anything else.
• Parliamentary research, the House of Commons Library briefings on migration, fee changes, and rule revisions. Used for context and policy background.
• Secondary expert sources, Electronic Immigration Network, established immigration law firms (Davidson Morris, Reiss Edwards, Sterling Law, Wesley Gryk and similar), and academic legal commentary. Used for nuance and to cross-check primary readings.
• Our own desk's observations, the earliest appointment slot seen at each UK Schengen centre, dated, logged by a person from the operator's booking site or from a real booking. Published at appointment availability and always labelled as an observation, never a forecast.

We do not cite social media posts, anonymous blog comments, or unauthored "visa news" sites. Where Reddit threads or community forums provide useful context, we describe them as such, they are not treated as evidence of policy or practice.

The review process

1. Drafting, content is researched and drafted by the findmyvisa Editorial Team using the sourcing standards above.
2. Primary-source check, every fee, salary threshold, processing time, centre fee and named rule is checked against the relevant gov.uk, consulate or operator page before publication. The verification date shown on each guide is the date of that check, and the centre fees in our price tables carry their source and a confidence label in the data behind them.
3. Periodic re-check, guides are re-checked on a rolling basis, the pages that earn the most readers first, and the "Last updated" date refreshes only when the content actually changed (not on routine site rebuilds).

What we do when rules change

Home Office rule changes, fee increases, salary threshold adjustments, new visa routes, processing time updates, and changes to Schengen centre operators and fees are tracked via the gov.uk feeds, the Immigration Rules statements of changes, and the operators' and consulates' own pages.

When a relevant change lands:

• Affected pages are updated within 7 days, with the "Last updated" date refreshed and the change noted in the page's revision history (kept in our git repository, public on request).
• For major changes (new routes, headline fee increases, threshold shifts), a dedicated update post is published.

Corrections

We will get things wrong sometimes. When we do:

• Spot a mistake and email support@findmyvisa.co.uk.
• We respond within 48 hours on weekdays. Substantive errors are fixed immediately; the page's "Last updated" date is refreshed.
• Material errors (those that could mislead an applicant on a fee, threshold, or eligibility test) are noted in a "Corrections" log in the page's git history.

Use of AI

Drafting and editing on this site is done by humans, the findmyvisa editorial team. AI tools are used for routine writing assistance (grammar, structure suggestions, code scaffolding), not as the source of any fee, rule or date, each of which is checked against the primary source named above. Pages are attributed to the editorial team, and a named author or reviewer appears on a page only when a real person has done that work on it.

Conflicts of interest

We sell a done-for-you Schengen visa service and say so on every page that mentions it, with the price and what is and is not included. Our guides on applying yourself are written to be complete whether or not you buy anything from us.

We may, in future, partner with IAA-registered immigration advisers who pay for qualified-lead referrals when readers explicitly request professional help. Any such partnership will be disclosed on the affiliate disclosure page.

We are not paid by, nor affiliated with, the Home Office, UKVI, UKVCAS, VFS Global, TLScontact, BLS International, GVC World, Sopra Steria, or any law firm. The site has no display ads as of the date above.

Sister-site disclosure

findmyvisa is part of the WayaNerd group, which also operates Tarve (UK visa-sponsored jobs board). Cross-links between findmyvisa and Tarve appear in route guides where readers are likely to be searching for both visa information and sponsoring employers. We do not receive separate compensation for these cross-links beyond the shared business interest in growing all WayaNerd properties.

These cross-references are placed contextually (in relevant prose), never as sitewide footer links, and the relationship is disclosed here, on the About page, and in our schema.org sameAs structured data. We follow Google's published guidance on disclosing related sites.